Maharashtra: Alleged Failure to Detect Dengue, Hospital booked under Section 304

Kalyan: A case has been registered against two doctors of Sai Vinit hospital and the management of a Royal Children's Hospital for the death of a six-year-old girl in 2018 due to medical negligence reported from their side, following the directions by the Kalyan court. 

According to a media report in the Free Press Journal, the case was registered by the Kolsehwadi police station under Kalyan division on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, following the Kalyan court's directives.   

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The case registered by the police was of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, cheating, and connivance under the Indian Penal Code and relevant sections of the Maharashtra Medical Practitioners act.

A senior police inspector from the Kolsehwadi police station said, "As of now no arrest has been made in this connection. We are investigating the case further." He added, "Complainant's daughter Shrushti Abhijit Sonawane had fallen ill on October 6, 2018 and she was taken to Sai Vinit Hospital in Kalyan, where two doctors named Dr.Nitin Kokre and Dr. Rohan Madgul examined her and prescribed some medicines." She was given some medicines for viral fever.

As per a media report in the Times of India, the father of the child had requested the doctors to conduct a blood test, however, the latter said that she simply had a fever, and would recover eventually. However, it later came to be known that the child was suffering from dengue, which the doctors had reportedly failed to identify. 

Police officer from Kolsehwadi police station said, "The six-year-old was again taken to the hospital on October 11, 2018, when the doctors diagnosed that she was suffering from dengue but she did not get proper treatment and the hospital even did not have a ventilator and oxygen facility."

When the girl's condition became worse, she was sent to the Royal Children's Hospital where she died, reports the Free Press Journal. The doctors handed over the body to the parents instead of conducting a post-mortem and also charged them Rs 40,000. 

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